DeWitt Clinton Quotes

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.

My training and my inclination is to invent.

Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.

Invention breeds invention.

I need to be creative all the time.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

I have fantastic ideas.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

You have to create something from nothing.

Creativity's about ownership.

I love to be creative.

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.

At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas?

Creativity is what transforms.

Creativity is an import-export business.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

The great thing about ideas is that every new idea leads to two more new ones. It’s the opposite of a gold rush, where the more people who show up in 1849 to get that gold in California, the faster the gold runs out. Ideas are not like that; ideas breed.